of Île Baladeau, a property “in grassland and standing timber,” for 360 livres. The next year he purchased a farm of nearly 44 acres with a house and barn in the fief of Cap-Saint-Michel, as

1840 to 1850 the community set up a number of foundations. After Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Boniface (Manitoba), and Bytown (Ottawa) [see Elisabeth

Rue Saint-Pierre which he valued at 10,000 livres. Jean-François, for his part, promised Dupont a life annuity of 500 livres. Legal action was taken by Eustache

), merchant, fur-trader, seigneur, interpreter in English, member of the Conseil Souverain, member of the Compagnie du Nord and the Compagnie de la Colonie; b. 1657 in the parish of Saint-Nizier, Lyons; d

, first superintendent of education in Lower Canada; b. 8 May 1796 at Petite-Côte, in the parish of Saint-Laurent (Montreal Island), L.C., son of Jean Meilleur and Marie-Suzanne Blaignier; d

Kaskaskia mission – was assigned as chaplain to the expedition of Charles Juchereau de Saint

end of the war he received a half-pay pension of £40 annually. On 18 Oct. 1783 Morehouse and his wife arrived by ship in Parrtown (Saint

member of the Saint John River Society in the mid 1760s [see Beamsley Perkins Glasier*] he participated in its grants, and he

lieutenant on 12 July 1794. His first active service took place during the campaigns of the mid 1790s in Saint-Domingue (Haiti). The 41st came to

new motherhouse, Mount Saint Vincent, was dedicated. In the same year the Sisters of Charity of New York received a request from Bishop William

. Little is known of McCord’s activity from the time he entered the profession until the rebellion of 1837–38. In 1828 he was apparently living in Saint-Joseph parish, in the village of Les Cèdres, where he

, 1835; Ecclesiastical Dist. of All Saints, reg. of baptisms, 1841. NA, RG 31, C1, 1871, 1881, 1891, Halifax (mfm. at PANS). PANS, MG 20, 2012, no.2; 2130, no.34; 2218; Places, Halifax, Board of

had achieved and the good reputation he enjoyed led McShane (or the People’s Jimmy, as the Irish called him) to venture into the political arena in 1868. He represented Sainte-Anne ward on the Montreal

(Man.). Jean-Baptiste Nolin first came to prominence in 1777 when in partnership with Venance Lemaire, dit Saint-Germain, he purchased the

, privateer, and port captain; b. probably at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France; d. 1778 at Bayonne, France. [At certain points this biography confuses the career of the subject with that of his son

and in 1914 sold all the foxes belonging to him and his family in Little Shemogue, to the Saint John firm of Kierstead and Mersereau for $224,000

Glensevern [: part i],” Saint Croix Courier (St Stephen, N.B.), 5 Oct. 1977: 22. [C. B.]  G. Wells, “David Owen of Campobello, New

(Fredericton), The Owen House, unpublished report by Louise Banville; architect’s report by Ross Anderson; final departmental recommendations by David Webber, 1971. N.B. Museum (Saint John), W. F

ultimately the principal Port in British North America.” Within a year, however, he had moved to Saint John in search of greater opportunities. Entering political life immediately, he was appointed an alderman

have prospered, since in 1786 he bought a lot of 28,500 square feet on the St Lawrence and a two-storey house on Rue Saint-Pierre at Quebec, where he conducted business from then on

PELLEGRIN (Pelegrin), GABRIEL, mariner and naval officer; b. 16 July 1713 in the parish of Saint-Louis at Toulon

. He went into the upper Saint-Maurice region in 1806–7 and spent the following winter at the post on the Rivière Agatinung (Gatineau). From then on his existence became more unpredictable than ever. For

Bay, P.E.I. Sylvain-Éphrem Perrey was born some 50 years after the deportation of the Acadians of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) in 1758

PLAMONDON, MARC-AURÈLE, lawyer, journalist, publisher, and judge; b. 16 Oct. 1823 in Saint-Roch ward at

-Baptiste Proulx’s early life. He entered the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in 1825, attended the Petit Séminaire de Montréal in 1829–30, and began his theological studies in 1831. Ordained priest on 26

Devonport, England, second child and eldest son of Lieutenant William Pullen and Amelia Mary Haswell; m. 25 Aug. 1845 Abigail Louisa Berton at Saint John, N.B., and they had four sons and one

Company Limited, located in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region [see Sir William Price], set up an air

. The experience with Howe may have helped Anne Quinlan decide to become a teacher. In 1856, in her mid teens, she enrolled in the training school in Saint John. The program lasted three months and

Saint-Urbain, Que., son of John Redman, a blacksmith, and Laure Martineau; m. 31 Jan. 1911 Valérie Bourassa in Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy, Que., and they had one daughter; d. 19

following year put his first advertisement in the Quebec Gazette. He was initially established on Rue Saint-Pierre, but on 1 May 1816 he moved his business to Rue du Sault-au-Matelot and also

Bizard* of Montreal. He was appointed town major of Trois-Rivières in April 1733, and in March 1734 he was made a knight of the order of Saint-Louis, an honour which he had long sought. He

(Burrell-Johnson Iron Company); 4-88 (Yarmouth Woollen Mill); Clement Doane, cemetery records; Grantees’ map of Yarmouth Township; Robbins geneal., comp. G. S. Brown. Progress (Saint John

pressure. They even ended up by marrying à la gaumine, in keeping with a custom that was vigorously condemned by Bishop Saint-Vallier

position as editor-in-chief of Le Quotidien, a Lévis newspaper which published its first issue on 7 July 1879. He was assistant corresponding secretary of the Société Saint-Jean

French, and in accordance with the treaty Sauguaaram spent the summer of 1740 calming the Abenakis of Saint-François, who were angered by Massachusetts’ expansion. On his return he exasperated Governor

Maritime provinces of Canada . . . (Halifax; Saint John, N.B.), 1869–1907. A. C. Chute with W. B. Boggs, The religious life of Acadia (Wolfville, 1933). Margaret Conrad

materials to produce coats, pants, and vests valued at $153,000. In 1871 it moved to larger premises on Rue Sainte-Hélène. Described as a “practical tailor,” Shorey managed production in the factory while

. Even after 1817 he invited Sigogne to continue writing as in the past. As a parting gesture in 1815, the bishop had honoured Sigogne by placing his new church at Meteghan under the patronage of Saint

. J. C. Webster, Catalogue of the John Clarence Webster Canadiana Collection, New Brunswick Museum (3v., Saint John, N.B., 1949), 1, no.1308. Mary Allodi, Printmaking in Canada: the

daughters; d. 20 June 1904 near Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Que. The son of a merchant from Vermont who had recently established himself in

in 1874 [see Letitia Creighton*] and unions had been formed in Saint John in 1877 and in Halifax about 1878. Prince Edward Island

Picoté* de Belestre in going to defend Fort St Johns (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu); it had already been raided by Benedict

. Tiarks arrived in September at Saint-Régis (Akwesasne), where the 45th parallel intersects with the St Lawrence, and there he began his astronomical observations. He was greatly impressed by the local

. Tredwell soon became interested in the development of large tracts of land in the Montreal district. In 1796 he acquired 1,500 acres south of Lac Saint-François, the seigneury of Ramezay, and the seigneury

Rivière Péribonca and plotted the course of Lac Saint-Jean. His cherished dream, to see the fertile districts of the Saguenay opened to settlement, inevitably clashed with the ambitions of the timber

, 1764 (Hartford, 1765); A sermon, preached at Sissaboo, now called Weymouth, in Nova-Scotia, on the 15th October, 1797 (Saint John, N.B., 1799); A sermon, preached before the lodge of

” after having lost all their belongings in a shipwreck on their voyage to British North America, but Bathurst’s instructions prevailed. Waller retired to a country home, probably at Saint-Gilles, near

 March 1904. Christian Messenger, 7 Oct. 1857, 1876–79. Messenger and Visitor (Saint John, N.B.), 23 March 1904. The Acadia record, 1838–1953

war against the English. The envoys visited Quebec, Bécancour, Saint-François, and Caughnawaga, and persuaded most of the Canadian Abenakis and mission Iroquois to end the war, despite the opposition of

 April 1855 in Sussex, N.B., son of James Edward White and Margaret Scott; m. 8 June 1892 Ida May Vaughan in St Martins, N.B., and they had one son; d. 17 March 1931 in Saint John